Ming Qu

Jul 18 2012

Botched robbery

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Two men charged in the shooting deaths of two USC graduate students from China during a botched robbery pleaded not guilty today to capital murder.

Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19, are charged with the April 11 killings of Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23. The electrical engineering students were attacked while they sat in Qu's double-parked 2003 BMW in the 2700 block of Raymond Avenue, not far from the USC campus, during a downpour.

May 24 2012

University plans to fight lawsuit by victims’ families

Two men suspected in the shooting deaths of two USC graduate students from China during a botched robbery were charged Tuesday with capital murder.

Bryan Barnes, 20, and Javier Bolden, 19, will be arraigned on June 25. They are charged with the April 11 killings of Ming Qu and Ying Wu, both 23.

The electrical engineering students were attacked while they sat in Qu’s double-parked, 2003

BMW in the 2700 block of Raymond Avenue, not far from the USC campus, during a downpour.

Apr 19 2012

Authorities checking for possible tie-in the recent murder of Chinese students

A gunman shot by a USC police officer after robbing four students was hospitalized this week, while detectives checked to see if the robber could be tied to the shooting deaths of two graduate students from China.
  

Apr 12 2012

Engineering students from China

A man and a woman—both USC graduate engineering students from China—were fatally shot today while sitting in a new BMW in the West Adams area near the campus, police said.
 

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.

California
San Diego college students and volunteers will carry out their sixth home restoration project on Wednesday, July 10 through Sunday, July 14. as part of the “Healing our Heroes’ Homes” (H3) program created by the nonprofit Embrace. The five-day effort will take place at the home of medically retired Marine Corps Capt. Sarah Bettencourt. Bettencourt served with many different units across the country during the Global War on Terrorism and developed a rare neurological disorder in 2008. With a focus to restore the homes of disabled veteran homeowners, H3 falls in line with Embrace’s mission to mobilize college-student volunteers and community members to serve less fortunate members of civilian and veteran communities. The project for the Bettencourts’ home includes kitchen and bathroom remodeling, building ADA-compliant disability ramps, widening their driveway to ADA standards, widening doorways and landscaping.
 
District of Columbia
The 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will showcase its five-year community research project on African American identity with the program “The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity.” This multicity collaboration examines the history and culture of the aesthetics of African Americans. The festival will be held June 26-30 and July 3-7, outdoors on the National Mall between Seventh and 14th streets. “Whether we realize it or not, we are all dress artists. The way we compose our look is a creative expression of our ideas about who we are and who we aspire to be,” said Diana N’Diaye, program curator. “This program explores the diversity of African American traditions of style, but also teaches young people the importance of documenting their own culture and saving that information for themselves and future generations.”